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My Rainbow Blog

A blog by JoelR in Personal Blogs

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The online journal of @JoelR.  My thoughts on porn trends, community management, and what it's like to run AdonisMale.

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Tale of Two Communities

There are two fundamental kinds of communities.   Community of Users The focus is on the users, and the social interaction between users.   This usually emphasizes features centered on the users like profiles, status updates, a membership directory, user albums, user blogs, and user-published content.  The user is there to broadcast his perspective, and shares his personal perspective.  Even though other users can comment, the primary focus is on the individual's original content.
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Post vs Contribution

Our community platform invites users to upload, share, and write through multiple ways.  Some are more useful than others.   Someone that shares a thoughtful, nuanced opinion that challenges other users or decisively adds to the collective knowledgebase is a contribution.  Someone that shares how they're feeling today is a post.   For some users, the 100 limit is a race to the lowest quality posts with a goal at the end.  For others, it's an invitation to fully participate
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On Timeliness

One of the evolving ideas in the back of my head is the need to ensure timeliness and relevance of the website.  Many users came from places that shared content that were popular a decade ago.  Interests, tastes, studios, and actors have changed.  What was popular ten years ago may still retain a sense of nostalgia, but the activity and interest in the subject will naturally decrease over time.  Modern users search for new pornstars, new studios, and new scenes.   I haven't fully come to te
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On Size

There are life stages to a community: inception, growth, maturation, and then mitosis.   When do you know when you switch from a new community to a growing community, or from a growing community to a mature community?  When does it become more important to protect the existing members than to welcome new members?  
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Milestones

On Six Years

Our community started in 2013.   It took us six years to hit 10,000 members.  It took us six years to hit a half million gallery photos.   In our seventh year of 2020, we've already hit 15,000 members and 1,000,000 gallery photos -- a remarkable achievement that demonstrates how we're not just growing, we're accelerating. It may have taken us six years to establish a foundation.  But it's to set-us up for an amazing new six years of fabulous growth.  To everyone in the community,
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On Relaxation

There's a lot of negativity right now in the world, from market crashes and joblessness to heartbreaking stories of personal tragedy.   It's important to distance yourself between what's truly impacting your day to day life, and what's happening to the world at large.  One way to do that is to step away from the non-stop negativity by simply relaxing.  This can be 3 minutes of deep breathing at work or 30 minutes of peaceful meditation at home.  My neighbor invited me to do that with t
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On Pride Month

I am appreciative of the enormous sacrifices made by activists in the past several decades to give me the right to be comfortable and gay today.  This is a tribute post to their sacrifices and a reminder that no matter who you are, and no matter your outness, there is still activism that needs to be done at all levels.    I'm curious to hear what pride month means to others in the AdonisMale community. Are you planning on participating in any Pride Month celebrations?  Vote in the pol
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On Pride

Photo of Martha Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, founders of STAR and the first pride parades in 1989. June is Pride Month.  The Stonewall uprising was a riot started by trans women of colour against police brutality. Pride is intrinsically intertwined with a rainbow diversity of black, people of color, and trans.
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On Porn

There's a lot of porn out there: Porn sites receive more regular traffic than Netflix, Amazon, & Twitter combined each month. (HuffPost) 35% of all internet downloads are porn-related. (WebRoot) There's also a lot of flavors of porn.  From kink to vanilla, from midgets to size differences, there are so many different kinds.   I personally tend to be pretty vanilla.  I like straight guys (of course who doesn't fantasize about the hot straight guy??).  I like barebac
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On Popularity

Popularity is a function of both intensity and time.  What was popular last year is different than what is popular than this year.   One of the challenges of our community software is that it measures popularity since the time of the items' creation.  An item that was created 5 years and collects 1000 votes is considered more popular than item that was created only 1 month ago and collect 800 votes.   But which one is actually more popular, at this time?  How would you display it,
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On Platforms

As part of the evolution of our website with the onboarding of Yahoo Groups, one of the biggest shifts that we're facing is from a community to a platform.   What is a platform?  A platform is a foundation on which other people or groups can build.   What is a community?  A community is a fellowship of people having a particular shared interest.   A platform is neutral.  A platform serves others, but has no mission by itself.  A community, on the other hand, does have a sta
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On Pausing

Most of us go, go, go.  We go to work, go to the gym, go back home, go back to work, go to meet up with friends, go for professional development, go for one of our countless dates and meet-ups for family members, children, siblings, or friends.   On my website, I have limited time to do stuff.  I spend all week thinking of the items that I'd like to do in the few short hours of the weekend that I have available, and when the weekend starts, it's go go go. Sometimes it's worthwhile to p
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On Overchoice

Users usually like choices.  Except when the choices become overwhelming.  Some implications for community design: One of the dangers and challenges of a community such as ours is not in offering too much, but in organizing it within too many choices.  Users need to be able to navigate with a clear and simple design, and part of that means constantly considering the dangers of adding 'yet another' new category or section.   How experienced users navigate is very different t
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On Minimum Specifications

Usually in an organization, there's a set of minimum specifications ("specs.")  It's a minimum set of requirements that the task, objective, or product needs to meet.   Most of us spend our professional lives rushing to meet those minimum specifications before we go onto another project with yet another minimum specifications.  On and on.   I'd like to think that as AdonisMale grows, we're not racing to the minimum.  We try to climb to the top and even if we can't quite get there, we s
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Thoughts

On Marvels

This is an artist's rendition of NASA's Cassini spacecraft before it burned up in the atmosphere of Saturn.  There is marvel in the universe.  There are great spaces to cross. There are vast unknowns to explore. There are wonders to both humble and elevate us.     Earlier today, rioters violently stormed the US Capitol and interrupted the counting of the Electoral College, a procedural vote with a predetermined outcome.  The rioting only forestalled the count.  How small.   How bi
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On Language, Limits, and Freedom of Expression

We recently opened our doors to Yahoo Groups who migrated to the site to start their clubs.  We have new clubs dedicated to a rainbow array of interests.  The language, niche, and fetishes of many of these new clubs stretch far beyond the historic focus of our site.  The onboarding of these clubs opens up a new set of perplexing and serious questions: What are the limits of this community?  For those limits, is there a difference between spoken vs unspoken guidelines? 
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On Humor (Part 4)

We're almost to the end of the month! Humor to get through stay-at-home orders ...                    
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On Humor (Part 3)

More humor to help you get a chuckle during stay-at-home orders                  
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On Humor (Part 2)

Some humor to help you get through stay-at-home orders.  Which one is your favorite?                    
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On Humor (Part 1)

Some humor to help you get through stay-at-home orders:                  
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On Honeytrap

While I wish the website would be universally popular based on the strength of our content, I recognize that we need to build a better 'honeytrap' to capture and delight users.  This means better galleries, better content, and better resources than anyone else in the world.  This is a high bar, but not an impossible achievement and certainly one that I'm willing to pursue.   The question is how to later convert those visitors, guests, and lurkers into active members?    
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On Goals

I was recently asked by a friend how to start up a community in three months.   Okay. Why did he choose a deadline of 3 months?  What kind of community does he want?  What are the objectives of his community, and how does he want to empower his members?  What kinds of content can he offer in his community?  What kinds of features, customizations, and technical interactions does he require?   Until you have the goals, you won't be able to create a strategy.     When we mo
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On Gifts

https://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/to-build-community-an-economy-of-gifts/ A beautiful quote on a 'gift culture,' a culture that underpins the entire foundation of AdonisMale and what goes back to the original mission of our community: to share beautiful photos of men. The most important part about gift culture is that the reward comes not from taking or consuming, but on the very act of gifting itself.  In a community, the more that you put in, the more that you receive.   Wha
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On Free Speech

Parler is a new social media platform that promises 'free speech' to users who were kicked off Twitter.  Ironically, they've posted community guidelines that are stricter than those of Twitter: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200630/23525844821/parler-speedruns-content-moderation-learning-curve-goes-we-allow-everything-to-were-good-censors-days.shtml
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On Free

What's the price of free?  So much of the web is free.  Free information. Free tutorials. Free services.  Free platforms.  Users expect everything to be free and unlimited.   There's a cost to all of that, whether or not the cost is apparent to you (the end user).  The cost can be time, energy, and volunteer contributions by a user.  The cost can be hidden, through the selling of your user data, privacy, and location  The cost can also be redistributed: some users pay for everyone else
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